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10 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918. PATRIOTIC PAGEANT PROVES BIG SUCCESS (Continued from Page 1) Charles Lucas, Walter Monger, Hen ry Frascr, Winfred Knight, Walter Whitcomb, Harry Hargreaves, Al bert Johnston, Arthur Johnston. Among the decorations in the church was a British flag loaned for the occasion by H. J. Bigger, which was carried through the Boer war in South Africa by Mr. Bigger's son-in-law. The flag was a very large one and by its appearance showed that it had gone through many battles in that far-off land. Seats were reserv ed for members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman's Relief Corps, Spanish War Veterans and Boy Scouts. Those who took part in the pag eant were: J. C. Chinn, Miss Carmen Schmidli, Miss Delia Hinchman, Mrs. Echo Spence Wilson, Mrs. Florence Bowman, Miss Florence White, Miss Myrtle Donovan, Glen Hankins, Mas ters Lot Beatie, Wilbur Crisswell and Cleo Howell, and the Misses Mary Roake, Juliet Jeter and Marion Crawford. The soloists for the evening were J. C. Chinn and Dr. Roy Prudden, with Mrs. J. C. Chinn at the piano. Orchestra director, Professor Gustav Flechtner;, organ ist, Miss Louise Walker; chdir direc tor, Miss Marie Holmes. Special ush ers for the occasion were Mrs. C. W. Robey and Mrs. Bert Greenman. Mrs. Harry B. Cartlidge was director of the pageant. COUNTY BRANCH OF W. S. ORGANIZED S. . (Continued from page 1) you." The new organization believes it can be done, and they are going after it. The plan of procedure is a simple one. Two-bits will buy a Thrift stamp. Sixteen such stamps will fill a Thrift card. The card may be pur chased by 16 persons chipping in to gether. During this month by pre senting the card and digging up 13 cents more you can get a Thrift cer tificate. - Twenty Thrift certificates secures you a Baby bond. For this, if you buy the whole thing this month, you will pay $82.60. Hold it until 1923 and its surrender value will be $100.00, a gain of $17.40 on your investment, which means 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly. This is not a charity scheme. You are not asked to give something for nothing. Just put your spare "rhino" where it will be earning a neat nest egg for you, and you will be helping Uncle Sam and our soldier boys win the war at the same time. The post offices are the main agen cies for the Bale of stamps. Banks and mercantile establishments are becoming branch depositories. Nearly every school in the county is taking up the work, and children are buying Thrift stamps. Surely no education al work is more needed than the les son of thrift. There is no doubt but what the organization will attain its goal long before the time set is up. Similar branch meetings were held at Estacada last Friday, Messrs. Eby and Caufield presenting the matter; and at Molalla Saturday Eby, Cau field and Milliken representing the work. ALASKAN STORIES ARE CON-CLUDED (Continued from page 1) look more than a mile, was the rocky reef, and between us and the shore the coast abounded with submerged rocks. . I That boat didn't even 'turn around.; It simply backed up, and that very slowly. It was a very close call to add another to the many boats whose skeletons are strewn along the rocky coast of Unimak pass. But now out of danger, we return ed to seasickness. The ocean was a little rough and one by onethe! ladies first the passengers began to disappear from the steamer chairs. And I began to feel like a real prize fighter I was "staying." We had a wealthy auto dealer named Johnson from San Francisco, as a passenger. He was a large, powerful man and as big a joker as he was tall. And he was a raw joker. He had made many trips on many waters and had never been sick. A woman might be extended some charity, but a man never, and he added to the misery of every sea sick man who dared to leave his door unlocked by regular calls. I roomed with him, and I dreaded the day when I would go down for the count. I knew Johnson would hand me a lot that wasn't coming to me. But day after day I went down I after three meals and kept my feet.1 We docked at Cordova for two and a half days to take on a cargo of copper and the sick stomachs had time to square away, and the boys held a conspiracy to get even with Johnson. We went to a policeman and told him we would give him a purse of $50 if he would arrest John son that afternoon. The cop fell for it, but said that as it was Sunday and he must have a good excuse, we would have to "start something" when he would pull the big fellow for disorderly conduct. This we agreed to do, but in the afternoon when we steered the victim up to the town the cop wig wagged us and stated the chief wouldn't stand for the frame, so we had to wait and plot again. When we got out of the sound and into the open a storm struck us broadside and in a very few hours half of the passenger list were in their berths. The boat was only 30 feet wide, built in Glasgow 40 years ago. The big waves hitting her broadside would roll her over until the upper decks washed, and Johnson warned the first mate that there was dan ger of the boat going so far over that the smokestack would dip water. But soon after happy day I found the big fellow leaning hard against the ropes, when I went to the room, and he was keeping an at tendant very busy. The next morn ing I circulated the news that John son was down, and soon after a doz en passengers called on him. They had a piece of fat pork on a string and they dangled it in front of his face. PRICE BROS. REMOVAL SALE i Crrr3r mm III T ii M Pflfwm Ml n We are going to discontinue the Camas store and combine our organization in conducting our New Department Store now in the course of construction at Seventh and Main Streets. Our Camas store is composed of strictly high-grade Men's, Young Men's and Boy's Wearing Apparel nationally known ad vertised brands as quoted below. We are moving the greater portion of that stock here, as our space permits, and com bining the two stocks which we are offering at prices far below the present wholesale market. In order to speed up February business we are making another cut in prices, and considering the character of our merchandise, we can readily make the statement that our values defy competition. The markets are still on the upware trend so don't wait, or delay, a visit will convince you of the many money saving bargains we are offering. We are giving you matchless values and will ask you to co-operate with us by not asking for credit as the terms of this sale are strictly cash. Hart Schaffner & Marx and Clothcraft Suits and Overcoats for Men and Young Men $35.00 Values in Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$25.75 $22.50 Values In Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$15.75 $32.50 Values In Suits and Overcoats , $20.09 Values In Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$23.25 Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$13.76 THEISYSTEM CLOTHES HM UNDENTHAL ft Sfjro o $30.00 Values In Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$21.25 $27.50 Values in Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$19.75 $25.00 Values In Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .'$17.75 $17.50 Values in Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$12.25 $15.00 Values in Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. . .$10.75 $12.60 Values In Suits and Overcoats Special Announcement Sale Price. .. .$8.75 Bargain Hints $1.00 Boys' K. & E. Blouses and Shirts 50o $1.75 Flannelette Gowns $1.30 $1.25 Boys' Pajamas 95o 40o Heavy Wool Socks... 25o $2.50 Men's Pajamas $1.95 15c Canvas Gloves, 2 pair for....25o $1.00 Heavy Mackinaw Gloves, per pair 80o $2.00 Umbrellas ...$1.55 $8.50 G. & M. All-wool Sweaters. $7.00 $4.00 G. & M. Fancy Jerseys $3.35 '$6.50 G. & M. Sweaters ..,$5.00 $3.00 Heavy Cotton Sweaters $2.25 75c All-wool Toques, all colors.. 65o 60c All-wool Toques, all colors... 45o Special Reductions in Shoes, Hats, Furnishings, Underwear, Trousers, Etc Real Bargains Come in and See for Yourself Seeing is Believing v , We are now in our DM OCATION -on- Seventh Street (On the Hill) in the building formerly occupied by the Volkmar Drug Store, one block and a half from the elevator, near the Hazelwood Dairy. and will still offer the public for a short time the following goods: Reductions Vary From 20 to 40 per cent. War conditions have made it almost impossible to obtain small musical instruments such as Violins, Guitars, Mandolins, etc., so we are discontinuing these lines altogether. $40.00 Lyon &Healy Trombone . . . $22.00 $75.00 Violin, complete outfit $45.00 $10.00 Violin . ,......$ 5.00 All Sheet Music Your Choice 5c Hundreds of selections to choose from the latest. Our entire stock is included in this closing out sale and we offer values that will make it worth your while many times over to visit our store. Theroux Music Company SEVENTH STREET Ebb ' We realize N the word "Sale" is sorely abused now-a-days, but our reputation in thfs community is too well established, to attempt any cam ouflage. We are determined to close out the two stocks to a minimum, as our purchases for our new depart ment store have already been mado. Why not investigate this economy event? TT PTC TOLlDHl Sixth and Main Streets JlLiW OJ&VJ) OREGON CITY, ORE. EsUblished 1895 Clothiers for Men and Young Men Established 1895 Across Uie Street From The Bank offlregoo Citj PR "Bite it, old top it's fat and greasy." "How would you like a dish of cabbage?" "Chew on a piece of raw fish liver." And so on, each one suggested a nauseating dish, and 'the seasick man would gag and swear. Then another delegation called. This bunch had one of those cartons (ocean travelers know too well what they are for), and in it was a mess of "mulligan" they had got from the steerage cook. And they tried to feed this abomination to the seasick man offering it to him in big spoon fuls. I wanted to take a hand in it, but I feared for the future. I knew what I would get if the seasickness should get me so I laid off. And between gags the skk man got this off "Go to it fellows, do your damn dest, for remember that when I get up I will make you sorry." And he did. The ship's carpen ter had to follow him. He wrecked the bunks and the men in them and when I saw the havoc I was glad I had stood neutral. The storm increased and the side boards were put on the dining tables. Even then a cup of coffee or a glass of water would slide down, hit the board and overturn into laps. One morning I was one of only five in the big dining room. And through the entire trip I never missed a meal, or lost one. I was one of the few immune " Through the UnimaK pass many whales kept alongside, big. black fel lows, and they were tame. Jf 1 had had a hook and line.no doubt I could have got a strike. The leviathans would come within a few hundred yards of the boat, put on free blow ing exhibitions, then hoist their big bodies three-fourths out of the water as they went down. Every day the sporting population would play the "log," that is, throw in a dollar apiece and guess on how many miles the boat would make in the next 24 hours, the nearest guess er winning the pot. What made the matter purely one of luck was the weather conditions. A head wind or a fog would vary the usual mileage. In the interior of Alaska an old man, partially blind and in poor health, boarded the boat, on his way to the territory poor home at Sitka. In the weeks we traveled and wait ed together I often talked with the old fellow. He said he had always been honest and sober but misfor tune and bad luck had been with him for 40 years; that he simply ould not make a success of anything not even day's work. He said he had a horror of the Sitka home, but it was not quite strong enough yet to over balance the desire to live, but he hoped it would soon be. "My last hope for a start was Alaska," the old man said, "but after ten years hard trying I have lost out. If they would only commit me to a home in the States I would not mind so much but I am a resident of Alaska and they can't do it, so I must eirt" it all in a poor house and die in a land I hate and dread." ' He stopped off at Cordova for a later boat that would put in at Sitka, and when he shook hands with me he cried like a child. The North Land has many such finishes. It's the Last Hope land and fate deals many cold hands. If you will look at a map of Alas ka you will see that Unimak pass is a narrow opening through the trail of Alaska the tail is like that of a comet's, the Aleuthian islands and it is easy to conceive that once there was a continuous roadway to Asia, And if you don't agree"with the com monly accepted theory that the na tives of Alaska came across the Ber ing strait from Siberia, then it will be a lot easier to think that in the ages ago they walked, or drove their Fords over by land, and that later on volcanic actions submerged this con nection, destroyed the roadway and left a bunch of isolated Chinamen to make a new race. This letter ends the Alaska series and I hope the letters have been in a measure as interesting to readers 'as the trip .has been to me. I expect to start the next series from Europe, from the battlefields of France, and am making prepara tions to leave early in the spring. If my plans carry I will be able to get up where the shell holes are, get warm and see the great conflict in its operation. And I will write you what the staff men do' not writer the human interest stories, the side lights. "HOOTCH" COMES TO TOWN Only the Sheriff Grabs It Before It Is Delivered Ten gallons of whiskey, cleverly concealed in two five-gallon kegs 'camouflaged" in a couple of old leather handbags, were seized on Could Not Eat or Sleep Made Well By PERUNA Mr. William E. Denny, 1023 Park Ave., Springfield, Ohio, writes: "I find great pleasure In writing you and thanking you for what Pa runa. hat already dona for me. I have been troubled with catarrh for years, and It had affected my head, nose, throat and stomach, that I could not eat nor sleep with any sat isfaotion. "I have just taken three bottles. I can eat most anything; and am greatly relieved of nervousness, so that when I lie down I can sleep without the least trouble. I reoommend it to all those who are sufferer of that dread ful disease, catarrh." Catarrh For Years Can Now Eat and Sleep To My Satisfaction Southern Pacific train No. 17 at Clackamas station last Thursday night, in a carefully-arranged raid by Sheriff Wilson, District Attorney Burke and Judge John N. Sievers. The officials, knowing the booze was coming, boarded the train at Oregon City, but the owner of the wet goods evidently knew the' offic ials were coming, for he left the train at Oregon City. The railroad officials refused to surrender the li quor without having a warrant serv ed on them, so Judge Sievers calmly pulled out a warrant blank, filled it in with the car number, signed it, and delivered it to Sheriff Wilson, who promptly served it on the trainmen. By the time the whiskey was discov ered the train was at Clackamas. The seanch-and-seizure law does not apply to passenger trains, and in order to curb the constant ship ments of whiskey to and through Oregon City, county officials have de termined to take the court right along with them when it is necessary to have a search warrant in order to seize the illicit liquors. Thursday's shipment had the outer appearance of a logger's outfit, the two grips having an old coat thrown around them. JENNINGS LODGE Those who objeot to liquid medi cines can procure Peruna Tablets. (Too Late for Regular Page) One of the most largely attended and delightful affairs of this year was the birthday luncheon given by the Parent-Teachers' association at the church on Friday, February 8. Much credit is due to the program committee and the ladies who presid ed over the season's tables for the pleasant gathering of the mothers of the community and the delicious luncheon which was in keeping with the conservation. The spring table was most beau tiful with its pussy willows and vio lets. Its coverings, napkins and place cards were in keeping with the spring months. Mr. Ed. Roethe pre sided. Seated at this table were the ladies whose birthdays occur in the spring months and were: Mesdames Hart, Berry, Losey, Pierce, Card, Brown, Uullabrandt and Edd Roethe. The summer table was made a pa triotic scene, and centering this table was Uncle Sam and our flag and many tiny flags. The "American eagle, as well as flags of the French and English were used effectively. The, place cards were pretty little flags, cleverly designed by Mrs. C. C. Hole, who so gracefully presided at this table. Chatting over the tea cups at this table were the matrons whose birthday anniversaries fall in June, July or August and were: Mesdames Paul Roethe, Edith Trus cott, A. B. Smith, Vyvian Dent, K. Brackett, Mrs. C. A. Elwell, Hugh Roberts and C. L. Smith. At a beautifully appointed fall table the chrysanthemum and fern was brought into display, the covers and place cards and napkins having a touch of the beautiful autumnal tints. Mrs. Wm. Jacobs served and poured at this table, where covers were laid for Mesdames Ella Ken nedy, C. Holloway, Miss Belle White, Mrs. Tillman, Sr., Mrs. Nolta, Mrs. Rodgers, Mrs. Shaver, Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Jacobs, whose birthdays come during the fall months. The thirty children who were serv ed, sat at a patriotic table, where flags, hearts and the national colors were used; each child wearing a red and white cap. At the close of the luncheon Mrs. Altman's pupils favored with a song and a drill on questions relative to the flag. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peterson were week-end visitors in Portland as guests of the Mann family. (Editor's Note: This is all we can run of Jennings Lodge notes this week on account of arriving too late.) Constant Sufferer Finds Relief "I have been a constant sufferer from kidney trouble and three months ago was "down sick in bed for my back ached so severely I couldn't get up," writes C. F. Reynolds, 412 Herrick St., Elmira, N. Y. "While in this' condition we read of Foley Kidney Pills so I commenced taking' them. In a' few days I was up out of bed."' Foley Kidney Pills strengthen kidneys and bladder. Rec ommended for backache, rheumatic pains, sore muscles , stiff joints. Jones Drug Co. The Courier and Farmer $1.00. Insure Against Scale by Spraying SAN JOSE SCALE is a factor that nearly every orchardist, farmer and fruit grower has got to reckon with. As a progressive grower you must fight the scale until you have it under control, for when it has once infested the trees in your orchard, if left alone, it will never let up until it has killed every tree. The one sure way to control the scale is to sorav while your trees are dormant with some effective material Lime-Sulphur Solution is the successful and authorized spray for fungus diseases and sucking insects. Formerly it was necessary to buy it. in liquid form with the added cost of freight and handling and barrels. Now you can buy it with the water evap orated,, at a 25 per cent saving, if you ask for r Sherwin-Williams Dry Lime-Sulphur We guarantee it to be exactly the same as the official liquid Dry Lime-Sulphur and to stand the same tests. Here are the comparative costs: LIQUID 6 1-2 gallons to 50 gallons of water costing -DRY 10 pounds to 50 gallons of water costing - - Saving nearly 25 per cent Above is figured on five gallon price for Liquid Solution $2.73 2.00 .73 LIME-SULPHUR DRY 1 lb 30c 5 lbs $1.25 10 lbs. $2.00 50 lbs $7.50 100 lbs $13.00 LIME-SULPHUR LIQUID 1 gal 45c (On Extra) 5 gal $2.10 1 bbl $12.25 $1.50 allowed for returned barrel Sherwin-Williams Dry Lime-Sulphur can be Obtained in Oregon City only at HUNTLEY DRUG CO.